"Boys aren't meant to even cry, but I can assure you I've seen plenty of them do it - and I've even been to that point myself," Wally Newman, a farmer for over 40 years, says as he vows to do his bit to tackle the high suicide rates in rural WA.
Financial stress, remoteness, loneliness and isolation are the factors that see more people taking their own lives in the country than in metropolitan WA.
Topping a national average, suicide is the leading cause of death for West Australians aged 15-54, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
In 2015 the suicide rate in the Perth metropolitan area was 13.8 per 100,000 people, compared with 19.8 per 100,000 people for the rest of the state."
[For more on this story by Jon Daly, go to http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-n...20170911-gyezz8.html]
Photo: Farmers do it very tough, says WA farmer and CBH director Wally Newman. Photo: CBH
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